To have refused to clean it up?

[SickOfRoses]

I’m a cleaner. Got to work yesterday and other members of staff kept following me around - they ultimately recorded me going into the men’s toilets. On the floor was wet torn up toilet roll, toilet roll “balls” splattered on the walls, toilet roll slung all over the toilet and what appeared to be shit smeared all over the toilet and floor (turned out to be chocolate syrup). There was also an elf on the floor holding an empty toilet roll tube.

The other staff members were in hysterics recording my reaction. I didn’t see the funny side at all and walked out suggesting they clean up their mess so I could get on with my job. In my defence I didn’t feel that well to start with, hadn’t slept well and had slipped on the way into work and hurt my hip.

I was called a misery, reminded that it was Christmas and told to lighten up. They have now uploaded the video of my reaction to Facebook and it has been shared twice already and I’m worried it will end up going “viral”. I have asked them to remove it and will be going to management if they don’t.
Am I being unreasonable??

@SuspiciousScully

'Pranks' are only funny is everyone involved finds them funny. If they're just designed to humiliate someone then that's bullying, pure and simply. And bullying in a work environment (aside from being shit in the way bullying is anywhere) is totally unprofessional. YANBU at all.

I agree with this... This isn't a prank, it's bullying, especially as they've uploaded it online. I'd feel humiliated in your position. Go to HR/your line manager.

Awful behaviour and posting video online is even worse. I would complain.

I’d be making a call to management today if it’s open. Completely unacceptable. It is bullying behaviour.

They sound like a proper set of dickheads

Click the “report post” option on FB, but take a screenshot first and pass it onto HR/your boss.

Utter wankers and contemptuous of your job.

They should clear it up.

This is unbelievable, what idiots. I don’t know any work place that would tolerate this?

I’m a doctor and if I did this I’d probably end up in front of the gmc about to lose my license!

You were completely right not to clean it, it’s so disrespectful to you.

Uploading it online is bang out of order.

So they deliberately made extra work for you?

How is that a prank?

I would report this immediately op. That is a disgusting way to behave

@anon12345678901

I agree with the others. Straight to HR. It's not funny and is a really shitty way to behave. sounds like they need to grow up massively.

Do it asap before video goes viral. If it does, ask for monetary damages.

Get yourself a copy of that video ASAP before they grow sense and take it down. Then straight to HR or management. Awful behaviour and in any decent workplace they will be in serious trouble.

Whether or not others have been "pranked by the Elf" (FFS, how old are these people?) is irrelevant. Your job is to clean the office so by vandalising the toilets in this way they have deliberately made your job more difficult and also shown very clearly that they don't value or respect what you do. Posting it on social media is clearly designed to humiliate the person on the receiving end of the prank and creates a hostile work environment. The more I think about this the more furious I am on your behalf, OP!!

Yep HR ASAP.

It doesn’t matter if others didn’t react as badly as you. They might have done internally but didn’t dare making a fuss.

Has any of them cleaned the mess they created?

That is truly disgraceful behaviour from them - genuinely shocking.

I would report them to management right away, it’s completely unacceptable.

Yes, that's awful. And if they can't see it was wrong & apologise, I'd report it to management.

Sorry you’re being harassed in this way. Please Report them.
It’s completely inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.
I hope they get their arses thoroughly kicked and that all of the perpetrators are given written warnings.

That is so bad

Definitely bullying, so report

What nasty people. Posting video to deliberately try to humiliate you makes it even worse.

How well Do they know you? Would they have thought you might see the funny side? Was you aware of the pranks that were happening with others how did you feel about them. If you had not had a crap morning would you have found it funny?

Although I can understand you may not have found it funny. I would not call it bullying. I think it was a prank that did not go down well. And pranks had been done to power people so op was not singled out.

But the video part of it is way out of order they do need to take that down. Surely by then they knew you were not happy with the situation so they should have just cleaned up the mess deleted the video .

I’m maybe a bit more open to a joke than some people are, but they have gone too far. This could only be a prank if they then came in and cleaned it up themselves once the joke was done. Also posting a recording of somebody without their permission is absolutely not acceptable. You would be right to go to HR.

Agree, this is APPALLING. I am so sorry they did this to you.

Get a copy of that video quick, before they start down-playing it all.

And then take your complaint to the highest level.

Go to HR. Those idiots need clean it up themselves.

This is out right bullying. Get a copy of the video if you can video it showing on there Facebook page and send it to management. They need dealt with by HR as that's not on.

They are a bunch of arses.

Pranks are supposed to be funny. Creating a heap of extra work for something is not that.

The video? That needs to be taken down. And sharpish.

It has to be funny for everyone or else it is just nasty behaviour.

100% YANBU
no way should you clean up after their prank!
nor should their video go viral